Covered wagon



(No Modell) C.. TUCKER.

COVERED WAGON.

No. 279,047, Patented June 5,1883.

UNITED PATENT- Ormea.

cHARLEs TUCKER, vor MATTAPAN,fMAssAcusErrsl' 4COVERED WAGON. .c

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,047, dated June '5,1883.

Application filed April 17, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ 1071.072@ 'it may concern.'

Bc it known that I, CHARLES TUCKER, of

Mattapam in the county of Suffolk, of the cation and represented in the accompanying against the other.

drawings, of whichL Figure l is a transverse section, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, of covered wagonbody provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of two of the grooved bows of the cover-frame, such section also showing a section of a curtain-runner arranged between such bows, and adapted to them by two dovctailed ilexile strips. This latter section exhibits the parts on an enlarged scale. Y

The frame for supporting the cloth or leather cover A of the wagon-body B is composed ota series ofy bows, C, D, E, and F, arranged at suitable distances apart, and extending upward from and over the said body in manner as represented. The said cover extends over the bows and down to the body in the usual manner, except in the spaces between the vertical parts of two front' bows, wherein vertically i movable curtains are employed. The cover also extends down in rear ot' the arch of the rearmost bow, between which there is adapted to the opening, at the rear of the wagon, and between the body thereoi and the said arch, a curtain to play up and down between the grooved and bent sections supporting the arch ofthe bow.

In Fig. l the rear curtain is shown at H', and one ofthe side curtains at H.

Each of the front bows, C and-D, is in two sections, c and b, each of which below the arch of the bow is stra-ight. In the crown of the arch one section extends underneath and Each section throughout its length has within it a dovetailed groove open along one side of the section, the dove` tailed groove being shown -at c in Fig. 3, and its opening at d. This groove is a. channel formed lengthwise in the bow and open along one side of it. The openings d of the bow C face' those of the next one, D, and within each section of the bow is a exile dovetail, G, a transverse section of which is shown in Fig. 3. The' curtain H of eachside of the cover is fixedvat its opposite edges to the long dovetails of the two bows. On 'moving upA ward the said curtain the dovetailswill slidc in the bows and into the arch of eacln W'hen the curtains are raised up, the portion of one in the crown of the arch will overlap the corresponding part of the other.

The rearmost bow, F, of the wagon-body is composed of an arched piece, f, and two dovetailed grooved sections, g g, from which thelarch springs at its feet. Each of the said sections is bent and extended horizontally into the cover, in manner as shown at r/ in Fio. 2. The grooves of the section open toward each other, and Yshould have ilexile dove? tails adapted to them, a\nd` the curtains fixed to such dovetails, as hereinbei'ore described, from which it will be seen that the curtain can be forced upward between the upper horizontal parts ofthe sections, or be drawn down between their vertical portions, such being to either open or close the end of the wagonbody cover.

The wagon-top so made can be wholly closed on either side; or the curtain to such side may be raised, so as to open the iop at such side; and the top may be opened in rear by raising the end curtain.

In order to complete the arch of each of the bows C and D, I apply thereto a curved supplementary section of pieces, on, bent and arranged as represented in Fig. l. e

l claiml. Thewagon-body-cover-supporting frame, substantially as described; composed of the dovetail grooved bows C D, one or more plain bows, E, the arched pieces j', and the two dovetail grooved and bent sections ,f/ g', constructed and arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The combination ot' theV supplementary section m with the two dovetailed grooved sectionsl of each bow C and D, arranged to lap together at their upper parts, as represented.

3. The combination of side and end oui'- sains being` adapted to the said frame, and it tains provided with iexile dovetails, as debeing provided Witli L cover of cloth o1' other scribed, with the Wagon body supporting suitable material, 'essentially as explained. frame, composed of the bows C D, one or more CHARLES TUCKER.

5 plain bows, E, the arched piecef, and the two f Witnesses dovetail grooved and bent sections g g', ar- R. H. EDDY, ranged substantially as seffy forth, the said our- E. B. PRATT. 

